WIMS Football

On Tuesday was meant to be the WIMS football day, but it was cancelled because of all the rain, so it was on Thursday. The two teams ( one boys, one girls ), had to be at school at 7:30 to get our tracksuits, and then leave by 7:45 for a 8:45 briefing and a 9:00 start. I went straight to Jansen Park in Hamilton, which was where it was held. The fields were muddy but not to wet. We had our first game at 9:00 against Cambridge. We were both good teams and the scoreline was 0 - 0 at half time. The halves were only 10 minutes long. In the second half the Cambridge forwards slipped past our defence thanks to some great passing. They scored, followed by another one closely after. We managed to score a goal with about three minutes to go, with a pinpoint corner from me, ending up with an own goal from a header from one of Cambridge's players. They scored another quick goal just before full time. The final score was unfortunately 3 - 1 to Cambridge. We had a quick break while the girls were playing. Our next game was against Maeroa. They were a great team as well, hitting the crossbar a few times thanks to some good goal keeping by Quin. They eventually scored, and again in the second half. The final score was another loss: 0 - 2 to Maeroa. We had another break before another game against Rototuna. They weren't as good as the teams we had played before and we should of won. We had quite a few chances in the first half although we couldn't quite score. Rototuna caught us off guard as we were playing most of our players forward and they scored an unlucky goal where Quin slipped in the mud and the ball slipped past into the goal. That gave them the confidence to score another goal. The final score was 2 - 0 to Rototuna. We had a bye, which is where we don't play a game. We had our last pool game against Berkley. They were a very rough team and kept pushing us around. The referee unfortunately didn't call them, so they scored two quick goals to win 2 - 0. We had one last game for 9th and 10th against Morrinsville. They hadn't won a game either, but we had scored a goal and they hadn't scored one. We won 2 - 0. Our goalscorers were me and Thomas. We ended up ninth. The girls came third overall.

Term 2 Week 3

Music
This week for Tech Arts we started music. In music for Yr 8 you learn different things to the Yr 7's. Last year we made a healthy living rap, and played on the keyboards and we even did some dancing. This year though we play guitar, and we play different tunes on the keyboards, and we make our own dance.

Belmont/WIMS Training
I am in the Belmont and WIMS team for football. Belmont is where our school and Belmont school play sports against each other. Belmont school is in Auckland, and some students from our school travel up to Belmont to play, and some students from Belmont school travel down to our school to play. I am fortunate enough to have made it into the team for football. WIMS is when you play against other intermediates around the Waikato. I have made it into that team too, which is on Tuesday next week.

Term 2 Week 2

Tech Arts - Science

This week was our last two lessons of science. We made bath bombs on Tuesday, which was made out of baking soda, icing sugar, scents and food colouring. We all got bowls and put our own mixtures and colours in, and then we filled up little moulds with different colours so they looked quite cool. We had to leave them to set so they don't just collapse and fall apart. When you put them in the shower or bath they fizz and dissolve. We made sherbet on Friday, which was made out of the same ingredients as bath bombs, but instead of scents we had flavours, and there was a lot of citric acid. The sherbet tasted very sour. My sherbet was green and had orange and mango flavour. Those were our last two lessons of science. We will be moving on two music now, which will start next Tuesday.

Term 2 Week 1

This week we had Mike King come to the school to talk to us about depression and anxiety, and recovering from these things. There were two two-hour sessions. He was a great speaker, and he used a lot of humor to tell us about his own journey through depression. Two hours sounds like a lot of time, but he was very entertaining and we didn't get bored. When people asked questions, they got a free poster. I personally  understand a lot more about depression and anxiety after his talk to the school. He has travelled to lots of different countries and schools to talk about the same thing.I think it is very important to tell people about these things in case they are going through depression, so they know what to expect as it can be very confusing and scary.
We also talked about science fair, which is due in week eight. We have to pick an experiment to do, and then we show the whole school our experiment we have done by explaining it. You need a hypothesis, which is an accurate estimation on how you think the experiment will go. So if your topic was 'How does the type of liquid effect how apples float?', your hypothesis could be whether you think that the apple will float better in water have to have a hypothesis. You have to research about your topic and put the results, your research, hypothesis and diagrams on a board, and then you present your board to the whole school in week ten.